The idea that we are what we eat apparently was touted first by French lawyer and epicure Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in a meditation on the effect of gastronomie on gout in 1826. [caption id="attachment_2555" align="alignnone" width="836"] There's Many Ways Our Food Gets Contaminated[/caption] The exact term “you are what you eat” was first used in…
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There are many influences that impact our health. Certainly poverty is associated with poor health – but it seems the shock of suddenly becoming impoverished is a health hazard of its own. [caption id="attachment_2539" align="alignnone" width="496"] Dropping Net Worth Will Crush You[/caption] Researchers at Northwest University looked at the finances and health of 9,000…
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Does Our State Legislature Have a Neurological Deficit?
Neurology has a wonderful lexicon of terms for when the brain malfunctions in some way. You might get a clue to some neurological disorder when the patient is perseverating (he or she keeps repeating a word or phrase). Or if they are confabulating (a disturbance of cerebration where the person comes up with fabricated…
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Are You Eligible for Bill of The Month Club?
Kaiser Health News is asking people with an outrageous or egregious medical bills to send it to them - it could help solve the problem of how the general public is being screwed by the whole American healthcare system (as explained in Elisebeth Rosenthal's wonderful, information packed book American Sickness - How Healthcare Became Big Business and…
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